Frequency of common bile duct motion artifacts caused by inferior vena cava pulsation on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-36

  Morita, Satoru ^a,b   Ueno, Eiko ^a   Saito, Naoko ^a   Suzuki, Kazufumi ^a   Machida, Haruhiko ^a   Fujimura, Mikihiko ^a   Maruyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Onodera, Yugo ^b   Watanabe, Kunihiro ^b   Suzuki, Takashi ^b   Ohnishi, Takahiro ^c   Imura, Chiaki ^c   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Kurihashi Hospital   (Japan)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifact; Common bile duct; Inferior vena cava; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FERRIC ION; FERRISELTZ;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREAS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 52649127915     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.7.31     Document Type: Article

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